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Showing videos filed under: west virginia
Christy Setzer, Richard Trumka, and Corruption at Home
February 8, 2011"A tiger doesn't change his stripes and the U.S. Chamber is not going to start working with the President," says Christy Setzer of U.S. Chamber Watch. But that didn't keep Obama from trying, as he gave a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which Christy reminds us is a massive lobbying organization, by far the biggest in the country, for right-wing causes.The F Word: Corruption and Inequality Begin at Home
February 8, 2011The U.S. media seems to have found a new language for the economy. There's been talk of “solidarity” and even “class war,” and a focus on corruption and inequality like we haven't seen in who knows how long. The only problem? They're talking about Egypt.Walter Mosley: Gesturing Towards Redemption
June 29, 2010“Redemption is looking at ourselves, asking what we can do better instead of blaming our leaders,” says Walter Mosely, an author and columnist for the Nation Magazine. “We can’t look to corporate media for our answers,” he continues, “we have to look to ourselves.”Dean Baker, Walter Mosley, the G20, and Hikers in Iran
June 28, 2010What is happening in Toronto? What is happening to financial reform? And what is going to happen to the many people who won't get their unemployment benefits extended? Dean Baker, co-director for the Center on Economic Policy Research, clears some of the questions and claims that economic changes are a mixed bag. Perhaps these changes brought positive things such as greater transparency, but this hardly negates rampant inequality or a problematic lack of change in how Wall Street operates business. It seems that the government know how to do things like keep the unemployment rate down, but the talk at the G20 Summit and the results here at the United States is doing otherwise.Jeff Biggers: Deadly Symptoms of a Deadly Addiction
May 12, 2010Even though twenty-nine coal miners were recently lost in the West Virginia Upper Big Branch mine explosion and the environmental and economic devastation from the BP oil spill continues to trump the clean up efforts, environmental legislation is strangled by this “deadly addiction.”Elizabeth Streb and The House that Herman Built
April 16, 2010Elizabeth Streb has been called "superhuman"--her choreography more extreme sport than dance performance. Pushing boundaries, testing limits, redefining pain and strength; this is what she does every day, and her work has received multiple awards, including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award.Jeff Biggers, Dawn Johnsen's Nomination, and Andy Stern
April 14, 2010As the community around the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia mourns its dead and papers report that miners are not being allowed to attend their friends' funerals, S&P Equity Research upgraded the company's stock from a "hold" to a "buy."Jeff Biggers: Beyond Blankenship
April 13, 2010As the community around the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia mourns its dead and papers report that miners are not being allowed to attend their friends' funerals, S&P Equity Research upgraded the company's stock from a "hold" to a "buy."Karen Higgins, Paul Rogat Loeb, and Workplace Safety
April 8, 2010The California Nurses Association and other nurses' unions were some of the strongets voices for real healthcare reform, continuing to call for single-payer Medicare for All even now. But with the birth of the new National Nurses United, the nurses are fighting battles on all fronts for healthcare--from a strike at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia to struggles with Massachusetts' program.
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